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The Montana Town That Wanted to Be Gitmo

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

The Montana Town That Wanted to Be Gitmo By PAT DAWSON Hardin Thu Apr 30, 2009 The coils of razor wire glint in the prairie sun like silver tumbleweeds piled against the tall chain-link perimeter fences of the forlorn Two Rivers Detention Facility in Hardin, Montana. Two years ago, the town (pop. 3,600) celebrated the completion of the state-of-the-art private jail capable of holding 464 inmates. Convinced that it would provide steady employment for over 100 locals, as well as accompanying economic benefits, the residents financed it through the sale of revenue bonds and turned it over to a for-profit prison-management corporation. On a 40-acre field at the edge of town where pronghorn antelope once grazed, they built it. But nobody came. Hardin tried to recover...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on April 30, 2009 (boomark / email).